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Benjamin Thibault
@ThibaultBen
#YQL-born (Northside). Grad: @ULethbridge @Harvard_Law. I currently take orders from no one over 4yo — that's really all I can handle right now.
May 4, 2023 • 14 tweets • 7 min read
It's been a hectic few hours, but here is what we know about how @ABDanielleSmith, @rebeccakschulz, @BrianJeanAB and @Alberta_UCP are lying to you about net-zero electricity. #ableg #abpoli #abelxn 🧵 @JSJamato @CanadianPress @TorontoStar @calgaryherald The government (Department of Energy at the time) commissioned an analysis of net-zero grid back in August. The RFP was won by ICF. The work was completed in the winter and provided to government.

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May 3, 2023 • 14 tweets • 3 min read
Some comments on the UCP's misleading rhetoric around net-zero electricity. #abpoli #abelxn It's totally unhelpful, for two main reasons:
1) It perverts the AESO’s 2022 net-zero analysis
2) It is hiding its own analysis that it commissioned in the summer of 2022 to be delivered to them by February, but it hasn’t released.
Jul 30, 2022 • 18 tweets • 4 min read
A comparative study in neighbouring provinces' <5 COVID vaccine press releases.

One (BC) gives a clear, science-based message to support public health. The other (AB, #ableg) chose a craven, ambiguous message to accommodate disinformation and anti-vaxxer sensitivities. TLDR: In BC, parents are encouraged to get their kids vaccinated. In #ableg UCP's AB, parents are encouraged to talk to a "trusted health-care provider."
Mar 7, 2022 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Apropos of nothing:

Amount my family gets from federal climate action incentive this year: $858
Carbon tax costs on one 58-L tank: $6.38 (I might fill up 12 times in a year, so $76.56)

AB's electricity rebate: $150
AB's fuel tax relief: save $7.54/tank I'll take the climate action incentive, thanks.
Mar 6, 2022 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
Double-confirmed #YQL rumour that Kenney was loudly booed at the #Brier2022 in #Lethbridge when he came up on the jumbotron. #ableg Small-city prairie curling crowds are not a constituency that conservatives can afford to lose (trust me… I know this works well!)
Jan 18, 2021 • 14 tweets • 4 min read
Alberta's multi-billion $ public investment in KXL takes another step toward a write-off. It leaves me wondering: what role did an erroneous understanding of "indemnification of political risk" play in getting us here? #ableg There is a logic to public investment to indemnify a project against political risk in some situations: where the government making the investment has some control or influence over that risk.
Aug 11, 2020 • 14 tweets • 4 min read
My family's experience with private delivery of joint replacement dates back to 2006. #abhealth [1/13] Then only 24 years old, my brother underwent a Birmingham hip replacement surgery at the Health Resources Centre, a for-profit surgery clinic converted from the old Grace Hospital in Calgary's Hillhurst community. [2/13]
Jul 8, 2020 • 20 tweets • 7 min read
The @CDNEnergyCentre is more active on Facebook, so you may have missed the outright climate science denialism they spouted recently. #ableg #abpoli (Thread) The science is very strong on the link between climate change and the increasing frequency and severity of natural disasters. ipcc.ch/site/assets/up…
Jul 1, 2020 • 25 tweets • 6 min read
As #ableg conservatives flummox us all with a bizarrely coordinated effort to bring back "Dominion Day", I decided to look into what is causing this confusing hive mind behaviour. I knew it was the historical name and was changed by Parliament in 1982, the same year as patriation of the constitution. And I had a vague sense that it probably related to a maturing country taking baby steps to shed its homogenous, British colonial identity.
Oct 19, 2019 • 13 tweets • 4 min read
If you were going to set out a comprehensive strategy to suppress global investment and energy market interest in Alberta's oil and gas products, this would be your plan. #ableg 1. Weaken pipeline review processes to make the resulting approvals vulnerable to environmental and Indigenous opposition and judicial reversal. edmontonjournal.com/business/energ…
Jun 1, 2019 • 15 tweets • 3 min read
Kenney & UCP's subterfuge on their positions on abortion and conversion therapy has been shameful, but also worrisomely effective in letting them off the hook. I thought it would be helpful to offer a rubric of gov't positions on social policies to assess their statements. #ableg Government positions on particular practices in society can fall into one of four basic categories: A) Support it (meaning provide it, fund it, or enable it in some way): B) Allow it (do nothing); C) Discourage it (opposite of A); D) Ban it.
May 2, 2019 • 10 tweets • 2 min read
A couple of things worth knowing in advance of SK carbon reference ruling tomorrow. #climate #cdnpoli #ableg 1) The options available to the court are not as simple as "yes Ottawa can tax carbon emissions" or "no, Ottawa can't tax carbon". There are a bunch of combinations possible along a number of parameters:
Feb 27, 2019 • 13 tweets • 6 min read
It's really remarkable that Jason Kenney wants to reference this article and this report to justify his complete lack of a climate plan for Alberta. For a number of reasons. #ableg #abpoli 1. The report completely ignores the comprehensive approach that Alberta has in place to preserve industry competitiveness for trade-exposed industries, and prevent the "carbon leakage" that it references. It chooses not to address these elements.
Feb 15, 2019 • 25 tweets • 5 min read
Today, @SPhillipsAB announced that Alberta has created the conditions for 4.8 cent-per-kilowatt-hour solar energy. This news cements solar energy's place in any future scenario of affordable electricity in Alberta. #ableg #abpoli Really, the only way that solar gets shut out going forward would be a government in denial about solar's part in our lowest-cost mix of electricity, whose members harbour irrational animus against solar or renewables.
Feb 13, 2019 • 4 tweets • 3 min read
According to @jkenney, the UCP is "making arguments in support of the government of Saskatchewan's position". NB: SK's position is that the federal government MUST impose its Ottawa-made C-price across Canada (including in Alberta), not just SK. #ableg #abpoli I don't think the UCP understands this... but thems the facts:
Jan 29, 2019 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
#ableg #abpoli
Aug 26, 2018 • 13 tweets • 4 min read
To understand the kind of politics we're in for with a Kenney-led conservative campaign coming, let's take a short jaunt down memory lane: the fake citizenship ceremony saga. nationalpost.com/news/canada/ke… #ableg #abpoli 1. In 2012, Kenney was adamant about holding a citizenship ceremony at now-defunct Sun News TV's ("Fox News North") studio. Sun Media demanded that bureaucrats comply.
Aug 21, 2018 • 20 tweets • 5 min read
It’s important for people to understand the substance of the Saskatchewan carbon price reference case that Jason Kenney supports. Let’s start with a few accurate premises, then draw some logical conclusions about Kenney’s positions.
See: publications.gov.sk.ca/documents/9/10… #ableg #abpoli Premise #1: SK’s case DOES NOT argue that Gov’t of Canada (GoC) lacks the jurisdiction to price carbon.
Aug 3, 2018 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
1. @jkenney and #UCP are supporting SK’s challenge, which argues that fed carbon price can only be constitutional if it applies to every province, incl Alberta, not just those without their own price, like SK and ON. #ableg #abpoli 2. In other words, Kenney isn’t just proposing to waste AB’s $ on lawyers to fight a legal loser: he’s demanding that Ottawa collect carbon charges in Alberta, not just SK & ON. #abpoli
May 8, 2018 • 12 tweets • 6 min read
1. Let's put this in context. In Cabinet in Ottawa, Jason Kenney agreed to Canada's Paris climate targets, the same targets we still have. (Toronto Sun: torontosun.com/2016/09/18/tru…). #ableg #abpoli #abclimate #cdnpoli 2. Mr. Kenney has been waging an all-out rhetorical assault on carbon pricing, claiming they're ineffective and costly. The vast majority of economists of all stripes disagree: they are the lowest-cost, most efficient policy for addressing climate change. ecofiscal.ca/carbon-pricing/